FIRST REFORMED Trailer Premiere Watch the first FIRST REFORMED trailer! The film, written and directed by Paul Schrader (Dog Eat Dog, American Gigolo), stars Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Michael Gaston, and Cedric the Entertainer. FIRST REFORMED will be released in theaters on May 18. A former military chaplain is wracked by grief over the death of his son. Mary is a member of his church whose husband, a radical environmentalist, commits suicide, setting the plot in motion.